💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Brainteaser"
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| posersnoun | (derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others. |
| brain tricknoun | A puzzle designed to exercise the brain. |
| puzzlenoun | (countable) A thing such as a complicated matter or a problem which is difficult to make sense of or understand; also, a person who is difficult to make sense of or understand; an enigma. |
| puzzlernoun | One who devises puzzles for others to solve. |
| crossword puzzlenoun | (games) A crossword. |
| puzzlefestnoun | (video games, informal) A game, especially a text adventure, that mainly requires the player to solve puzzles. |
| tricknoun | Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle. |
| probnoun | (informal) Clipping of problem. [A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.] |
| trivianoun | A quiz game that involves obscure facts. |
| puzzlehuntnoun | A game where teams compete to solve puzzles, the answers to which reveal the location of a hidden treasure or allow the teams to accomplish a final goal. The puzzle answers are frequently combined in a metapuzzle. |
| griddlernoun | (games, puzzles) A puzzle in which cells of a grid must be filled or left blank, according to sets of numbers given at the side of the grid, to reveal a hidden picture. |
| quiznoun | A competition in the answering of questions. |
| hanjienoun | (games, puzzles) A puzzle in which cells of a grid must be filled or left blank, according to sets of numbers given at the side of the grid, to reveal a hidden picture. |
| tricky racketnoun | A type of business or endeavor that is not easy; a domain fraught with difficulty. |
| retractornoun | A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound. |
| word golfnoun | Word ladder puzzles generally. |
| picrossnoun | (games, puzzles) A puzzle in which cells of a grid must be filled or left blank, according to sets of numbers given at the side of the grid, to reveal a hidden picture. |
| monty hall problemnoun | A brainteaser regarding probability, in which a game show contestant picks a door to win a prize. One door conceals a car; the other two conceal goats. After the contestant picks a door, the host opens one of the two remaining doors which reveals a goat. Counterintuitively, it is then in the contestant's interests to switch to the remaining door. |
| fairy chessnoun | A chess variant: chess with unusual rules or pieces. |
| pixel huntnoun | (video games) a search for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game |
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